Covid-19 pandemic gives an impact on education field. Face to face learning pattern in schools has shifted to distance learning which is carried out distance learning. So, there are four skills of learning English of reading, writing, listening and speaking which need monitoring by the teacher. This study described and analyzed the EFL pre service teachers’ strategies in monitoring students’ learning progress during distance learning. In the other hand, this study aimed to analyze the challenges faced by EFL teachers’ in monitoring students’ learning progress during distance learning The study applied a descriptive qualitative method. The researcher collected the data through questionnaire. In addition, to support the observation, the researcher did the interview with 5 questions for 2 EFL pre-sevice teacher. The result showed that the teacher was monitoring the learning progress through some online application such as zoom, google meet and etc. The EFL pre service teachers’ need to be more creative and innovative to delivering the material through distance learning which the teacher cannot meet the students’ personally. The EFL pre service teachers’ face some challenges when applying those strategies. Distance learning class makes a teacher hard to control the class and be charged to be more creative when delivering the material. Meanwhile, students’ also face some challenges in distance learning, there are low motivation, bored and not emotionally connected to the teacher.